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Globe (London) 24 Dec. 4/4: A smart, scientifc boxing match took place [...] betwixt a gallant knight of the thimble again Power, the celebrated pugilist.at ...the thimble under knight of the..., n.
Globe (London) 24 Dec. 4/4: A smart, scientifc boxing match took place [...] betwixt a gallant knight of the thimble again Power, the celebrated pugilist. Globe (London) 30 Dec. 4/2: Smasher [...] He had in his possession [...] a great number of counterfeit shillings and [...] one woman [...] proved that she had taken a bad sixpence off him.at smasher, n.1
Globe (London) 7 Mar. 4/3: Mr. Kemp came out the adventure with no other personal damage than a moderate-sized brandy-blossom on the dexter-side of his nose.at brandy blossom (n.) under blossom, n.2
Globe (London) 21 Jan. 4/3: A constable [...] overheard one of them say [...] if they were sent to the assizes, they might be sure of getting seven-penn’orth, meaning seven years’ transportation.at seven pennorth (n.) under seven, adj.
Globe (London) 13 Apr. 4/3: Upon inquiry. found he was one the ‘swell mob’ thieves, and is one of the most active robbers at the theatres.at swell mob, n.
Globe (London) 30 Oct. 1/3: [advert for Blackwood’s mag.] CONTENTS. I. On the present Position of the Church of Scotland, Part I II. Hermotimus-III. Goethe’s Life and Works. No. II IV. The Queer Stick.at queer stick (n.) under queer, adj.
Globe (London) 26 Dec. 4/5: They were part of a gang of fellows called ‘moocher.’ [...] a term applied to cheats, who went about obtaining liquor without the means of paying for it.at moocher, n.
Globe (London) 10 Sept. 3/3: Comedies, in the shape of slanging matches with the barges, are less frequent than formerly, and melodramatic fistic combats still less frequent.at slanging match (n.) under slang, v.1
Globe (London) 23 Apr. 3/3: Different species of hawks were assigned to different ranks of individuals [...] the ger-falcon and its tercel to a king; the falcon-gentle and the tercel-gentle to a prince.at tercel-gentle, n.
Globe (London) 30 June 4/2: Messrs Young are the perpetrators of the abominations with which the land of the ’51 Exhibition commissioners is now disfigured — ‘the Brompton Boilers,’ as thse precious constructions are known.at boilers, the, n.
Globe (London) 19 Sept. 4/6: He was ‘undermining her karacter’ by giving out that she’d got three months in quod for ‘cat skinning’.at skin the cat (v.) under cat, n.2
Globe (London) 19 Sept. 4/6: He was ‘undermining her karacter’ by giving out that she’d got three months in quod for ‘cat skinning’.at give out, v.
Globe (London) 19 Sept. 4/6: He was ‘undermining her karacter’ by giving out that she’d got three months in quod for ‘cat skinning’ . Would the magistrate send a constable to tell Pat Murphy to keep to his own shop.at keep to one’s own shop (v.) under shop, n.1
Globe (London) 19 Sept. 4/6: She was attacked with a swelling in the back which having turned into a ‘tombstone’ she was obliged to go into hospital to have it cut out.at tombstone, n.
Globe (London) 12 Mar. n.p.: That species of refresher which in some parts of our country is known as a morning is also a German institution [F&H].at morning, n.
Globe (London) 16 Apr. 6/2: How delightful it is to us poor loungers in the stalls [...] to see persons beyond the lights who can sit down as ladies sit and talk as ladies talk without shocking us by ogling and pouting for a bouquet as our swarm of Lotties and Totties do.at lotties and totties, n.
Globe (London) 30 Sept. 1/3: Only the half-developed Yankee who is ‘slab-sided’.at slab-sides (n.) under slab, n.
Globe (London) 18 July 6/1: Although he was never heard to mutter ‘Helen Blazes’ he must have often felt tempted to use it.at Helen!, excl.
Globe (London) 9 July 1/4: There is little satisfaction in showing the lions to a person who is either unable tor unwilling to see anything astonishing in them.at show the lions (and tombs) (v.) under show, v.
Globe (London) 15 Dec. 1/3: By the ‘chiveying’ case [...] was meant the ‘knifeing’ case, and ‘chiveying’ for ‘knife-ing’ is good Anglo-Romanes. Chivomengro or chinomengro is a knife, and comes from the word chiv or chin, which means ‘cut’.at chivvy, v.2
Globe (London) 24 July 2 1: The King [George III] wore a brown wig... known popularly a century ago as brown george [F&H].at brown george (n.) under brown, adj.2
Globe (London) 5 Oct. in (1909) 269/2: Mr John Coleman, having been accused of being the author of a certain book, writes to the papers demanding to know the originator of the ‘slander.’ Mr Coleman is anxious ‘to write my signature across his.’ This picturesque phrase will be a useful addition to the vocabulary of the ring.at write one’s signature across someone’s (v.) under write, v.
Globe (London) 18 Mar. 3/2: (Referring to a recent order of French War Minister permitting soldiers to wear their beards) There is wailing and weeping among a certain section of that army, the figaros, which has been despoiled at one fell swoop [F&H].at figaro, n.
Globe (London) 10 Mar. n.p.: They have squandered enormous sums of money in squaring a huge army of committee men, collectors, and other hangers-on [F&H].at square, v.
Globe (London) 25 Mar. n.p.: A batch of these grimy ones being brought up the other day for playing pitch and toss – in the local vernacular, schooling – in a public place, their counsel argued that they were driven to it by destitution [F&H].at schooling (n.) under school, n.
Globe (London) 12 Oct. 1/4: [...] a wily ‘Heathen Pass-ee’ [...] who had cribs up his sleeve, and notes on his cuff [F&H].at crib, n.3
Globe (London) 12 Oct. 4/4: In a high-class music hall it is a rule that no song must be sung till it is read and signed by the manager, and this applies even to the gag [F&H].at gag, n.
Globe (London) 31 Oct. 4/4: It went on to state that the petitioner’s talk about divorce was all gas, and made a further appointment [F&H].at gas, n.1
Globe (London) 3 Mar. 1/4: The low comedy was much toned down [...] In other words, the gaggers were gagged [F&H].at gagger, n.1
Globe (London) 7 Feb. 1, col. 4: What are umbrellas or masher canes to students immersed in Mill or Emerson [...] ? [F&H].at masher, adj.
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